Business Continuity Preparedness Survey
This is a 10 Question survey and takes less than 5 minutes

Please Provide Your Business Segment/Market: Accommodation and Food Services Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation Construction Educational Services Finance and Insurance Health Care and Social Assistance Information Management of Companies and Enterprises Manufacturing Mining Other Services (except Public Administration) Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Public Administration Real Estate and Rental/Leasing Retail Trade Transportation and Warehousing Utilities Wholesale Trade

1. How would you rate your organizations current Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan?

Exceptional Pretty Solid Average Barely Available Non-Existent

2. Have you conducted a formal review and determination of the potential sources of risk that your business faces?

Yes No

3. If you have prepared a Business Impact Analysis for your Business Processes, who was leading the effort?

Business Process Owners Information Systems We have not done a BIA

4. Do you have an Emergency Response Plan?

Yes No

5. Have you determined the Maximun Tolerable Downtime for all Critical Business Processes?

Yes Informally No

6. Are your tape backups based on ITs ability to get it done, or on an RPO/RTO Analysis?

Business Process Owners Determined the Backup Schedule IT Determined the Backup Schedule Not sure we do backups We do not do backups

7. Does your plan include a Communication Plan?

Yes, very comprehensive Yes, but very basic What is a Communication Plan?

8. Does your plan clearly outline the sequence of systems recovery?

Yes, recovery by the hour Yes, recovery by the day No, it just has a list of recovery tasks No, we don't have a plan

9. Does your plan include a procedure for providing lodging and food for key employees during recovery?

Yes Some, but not all key employees No

10. Do you have your key vendors, contacts and SLA's stored with your plan?

Yes, all of them Yes, but there are several missing Yes, but just the top hardware vendors No

Please provide us with some basic information about yourself: Company: Name: Phone: Email: Contact Preference: Please call me Please email me I will contact you if needs arise Please do not contact me

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